![]() He went through an unlocked door at 11:40 a.m., Mr. Investigators were still trying to piece together the gunman’s movements during the time he was outside, before he entered the building. Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times The gunman crashed a truck nearby before climbing a fence surrounding the school. ![]() The officer could not see anyone when he arrived, according to a state police official, but then heard gunshots as the gunman began firing at the windows and entered the building. ![]() He fired the shots, ran, jumped a fence and headed towards the school.”Īn armed Uvalde school district officer, who had been nearby, responded to reports that a driver involved in a crash had exited his vehicle with a gun. “He looked like nothing mattered but the mission he was on. “And then he turns to me and popped two more rounds at close range, but misses, as well,” Mr. He fired briefly at a nearby funeral home, he said. “His look matched the black clothes he was wearing,” Mr. Then he saw that the driver was carrying a rifle. “I ran down there thinking someone got hurt,” he said. Moments before, the gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, had crashed a pickup truck in a ditch by the school after having shot his 66-year-old grandmother in the face in her home, just a few streets from the school.Īlbert Vargas, 62, an electrician, was at work in a house near Robb Elementary School and said he saw the crash. The first report of a gunman approaching the school came around 11:30 a.m. to use their maximum authority to investigate and provide a full report,” said Representative Joaquin Castro, a Democrat from San Antonio.Ĭhief Daniel Rodriguez of the Uvalde Police Department and the head of the school district police, Chief Pete Arredondo, did not respond to requests for comment. Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement rushed students at Robb Elementary School to safety.
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